An Interview with Bernadette Mayer by Stephanie Anderson

BM: […] Maybe it’s time to tell you—hope I didn’t already tell you this—my ideal house.

SA: Okay.

BM: It would be this house, but it would have to be relocated in the middle of the woods. And rebuilt a little bit so that there would be porches on all sides of it. Wouldn’t that be great? And, if you really had the leisure, all the porches—well, not all of them, but some of the porches—would have to be glass-enclosed. Like the ones facing south and I don’t which others… You’d have to figure out from where you moved it. And in the house would be an indoor swimming pool. And outside the house, an outdoor swimming pool. And nearby, a glass-enclosed walkway for walking in the winter. You would have your neighbors walk there, too. And at one end of the walkway, where people would finish their walks, I would be sitting there fixing them grilled cheese sandwiches. To allow them to get on with their day. And we would have really excellent bottles of wine available. Or, you know, Coke I guess, if people needed it. Wouldn’t that be great?